Recently my friend and I were looking for a place to eat lunch.
“In a pickle,”
(The Tempest) we were looking for a good fish
restaurant in Moss Landing. It
was only eleven o’clock in the
morning and the town was “as dead as a doornail”
(Henry VI)
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| Photo by Robert Scoles |
We parked the car and entered a rustic looking building with
a
shingle that read, SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY OF AMERICA.
They do not serve food, by
the way. We just wanted to poke
our noses inside to see what the place was all
about.
Forty-five minutes later we left the building, our heads
spinning with facts
and trivia on William Shakespeare.
We saw so many antique books, paintings,
statues and
stuff relating to William.
The gift shop, however, was completely modern and full
of great jewelry
and gifts. The sales help to support
the society. “There’s a method in their
madness.” (Hamlet)
The big question is; why Moss Landing? Some things are
simply
unexplainable, “neither here nor there.” (Othello)
“In the twinkling of an eye” (The Merchant of Venice) we
found The Whole
Enchilada just two blocks away, and had
“too much of a good thing.” (As You
Like It) We were
“a sorry sight” (Macbeth) as we waddled back to the car, stuffed full of enchiladas and knowledge about the most famous writer ever!
Shakespeare Society of America
New Shakespeare Sanctuary
7981 Moss Landing Road
Moss Landing, CA 95039
(831) 633-2989
Sonnet 18
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date".
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